My rating: *** Imdb link A film from the pen of Neil Gaiman set in an amusingly modernised fairytale world. What really made this film for me, however, was the performance of Robert de Niro as a cross-dressing pirate. All bluster, walk the plank and aaargh me hearties to the exterior world, in the privacy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Neil Gaiman’
Stardust (2007)
Posted in film, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Neil Gaiman, pirates, Robert de Niro, Scarlet Pimpernel, Stardust on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
MirrorMask (2005)
Posted in film, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Mirrormask, Neil Gaiman on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My rating: **** Imdb link This film is the result of a collaboration between writer Neil Gaiman, artist Dave McKean and the Jim Henson Company. It is about a British teenager whose parents run a circus. Her mother falls ill in Brighton and she enters into a parallel dream-like world which is made up of [...]
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